What do we do today with these uplifting images? What do we imply when we attribute to them meanings that exceed the reality of that moment and of those people? While this is an open question for historians and for anyone concerned with the use of the past, it is important to remember that an image hides as much as it tells, exactly as our memories are propelled largely by things forgotten.
Legitimizing Fascism Through the Holocaust?
As the Holocaust becomes increasingly present in the political discourse in the US, Europe and Israel, we republish this reflection…
A Note From A Refugee of 75 Years Ago
You are right in that that the spiritual tensions in the man can be eased by telling someone about them,…
Never Again What?
The ongoing relevance of Levi’s work is not its ecumenical lesson against intolerance—in the vein of Anne Frank’s diary for…
Stateless: A Russian Childhood in Fascist Italy
When I was a child in fascist Italy, until the age of five I had never heard the word Jew…
